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Wild Goose Chase

Back from my first shift of OVL. Just slept so not very tired. In fact this time we did only one shift of 3hrs each out of the 12hrs, mine was at 3am to 6am. Ok shall desribe the process of OVL I've been through so far.

On wednesday we got our uniforms which were soaked in permethrin back. Permethrin's a pretty strong mosquito repellent that apparently does not work very well. Anyways brought home a lot of stuff that I didn't want to leave to rot in Stagmont Camp for a month or so.

On thursday was OVL parade, some sort of a commisioning parade to send you off into official ops. So stood in the sun for a couple of minutes then proceeded for the briefing. After the briefing we were taken to Sungei Gedong camp to report for our duty. Stoned around for a couple of hours before finally leaving for our OPs at around 8. My OP is called SW5. A pretty neat place. It was quite windy and cool at night.

The trip there was a headbanging ride. Lots of rock and roll and heavy metal. Took around 20 minutes to get there via landrover. Very exciting, just like a rollercoaster ride. When we got there we learnt the ropes from the oldies and started dutying until friday morning. Then came back home via shuttle bus then mrt.

Met a couple of RJ friends along the way. Surprise surprise... Zhengjie from RJGE was there. Talked with him awhile. Nat Lai was there too, but didn't get to say hi. A couple of my 2 Sig Bn friends were there as well. Oh and I met Annabel Tio at CCK Mrt while I was going back to camp to book in. She's going to SMU soon, and it seems like neither of us have any major contact with RJ peoples except through church perhaps. Sad sia.

Aite one down 19 left. Till after my next shift. Which unfortunately is 9am to 9pm on Sat.
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